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Literal Standard Version

Luke 2:19

and Mary was preserving all these things, pondering [them] in her heart;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Mary;   Shepherd;   Thompson Chain Reference - Mary;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Shepherd;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Mary;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Heart;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jesus;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Joseph;   Mary, the Virgin;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem;   Heart;   Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   Joseph;   Luke, Gospel of;   Shepherd;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Heart;   Jesus Christ;   Vision;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Annunciation, the ;   Boyhood of Jesus;   Heart;   Presentation ;   Reflectiveness;   Reverence;   Virgin Birth;   Woman (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Joseph ;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joseph, Husband of Mary;   Ponder;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But Mary was treasuring up all these things in her heart and meditating on them.
King James Version (1611)
But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
King James Version
But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
English Standard Version
But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.
New American Standard Bible
But Mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart.
New Century Version
But Mary treasured these things and continued to think about them.
Amplified Bible
But Mary treasured all these things, giving careful thought to them and pondering them in her heart.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But Mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart.
Legacy Standard Bible
But Mary was treasuring all these things, pondering them in her heart.
Berean Standard Bible
But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.
Contemporary English Version
But Mary kept thinking about all this and wondering what it meant.
Complete Jewish Bible
Miryam treasured all these things and kept mulling them over in her heart.
Darby Translation
But Mary kept all these things [in her mind], pondering [them] in her heart.
Easy-to-Read Version
Mary continued to think about these things, trying to understand them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But Mary kept all those sayings, and pondred them in her heart.
George Lamsa Translation
But Mary treasured all these things, and dwelt on them in her heart.
Good News Translation
Mary remembered all these things and thought deeply about them.
Lexham English Bible
But Mary treasured up all these words, pondering them in her heart.
Literal Translation
And Mary kept all these words, meditating in her heart.
American Standard Version
But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.
Bible in Basic English
But Mary kept all these words in her heart, and gave much thought to them.
Hebrew Names Version
But Miryam kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.
International Standard Version
but Mary continued to treasure in her heart all these things and to ponder them.Genesis 37:11; Luke 1:51,66;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
But Mariam kept all these words, and compared them in her heart.
Murdock Translation
And Mary laid up all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But Marie kept al those sayinges, and pondered them in her heart.
English Revised Version
But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.
World English Bible
But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But Mary kept all these things, comparing them together in her heart.
Weymouth's New Testament
But Mary treasured up all these things, often dwelling on them in her mind.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But Marie kepte alle these wordis, berynge togider in hir herte.
Update Bible Version
But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.
Webster's Bible Translation
But Mary kept all these things, and pondered [them] in her heart.
New English Translation
But Mary treasured up all these words, pondering in her heart what they might mean.
New King James Version
But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.
New Living Translation
but Mary kept all these things in her heart and thought about them often.
New Life Bible
But Mary hid all these words in her heart. She thought about them much.
New Revised Standard
But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
but, Mary, was closely observing, all, these things, putting them together in her heart.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart.
Revised Standard Version
But Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But Mary kept all thoose sayinges and pondered them in hyr hert.
Young's Literal Translation
and Mary was preserving all these things, pondering in her heart;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But Mary kepte all these sayenges, and pondred them in hir hert.
Mace New Testament (1729)
but Mary considered these things very attentively, and weigh'd every circumstance in her mind, while the shepherds return'd,
THE MESSAGE
Mary kept all these things to herself, holding them dear, deep within herself. The sheepherders returned and let loose, glorifying and praising God for everything they had heard and seen. It turned out exactly the way they'd been told!
Simplified Cowboy Version
but Mary pondered these things in her heart and tried to sort out everything that had happened.

Contextual Overview

8And there were shepherds in the same region, lodging in the field and keeping the night-watches over their flock, 9and behold, a messenger of the LORD stood over them, and the glory of the LORD shone around them, and they feared [with] a great fear. 10And the messenger said to them, "Do not fear, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be to all the people, 11because today in the city of David a Savior was born to you, who is Christ the LORD! 12And this [is] the sign to you: you will find a Baby wrapped up, lying in the manger." 13And suddenly there came with the messenger a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, 14"Glory in the highest to God, and on earth peace, among men—good will!" 15And it came to pass, when the messengers were gone away from them to the heavens, that the men, the shepherds, said to one another, "We may indeed go over to Beth-Lehem and see this thing that has come to pass, that the LORD made known to us!" 16And they came, having hurried, and found both Mary, and Joseph, and the Baby lying in the manger, 17and having seen, they made known abroad concerning the saying spoken to them concerning the Child.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 2:51, Luke 1:66, Luke 9:43, Luke 9:44, Genesis 37:11, 1 Samuel 21:12, Proverbs 4:4, Hosea 14:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:21 - wondering at Job 22:22 - lay up Psalms 119:11 - Thy word Proverbs 2:1 - hide Proverbs 24:32 - considered it Daniel 7:28 - but Luke 1:29 - and cast

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
And God blesses them, and God says to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over [the] fish of the sea, and over [the] bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping on the earth."
Genesis 2:4
These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth in their being created, in the day of YHWH God's making the earth and the heavens;
Genesis 2:8
And YHWH God plants a garden in Eden, at the east, and He sets there the man whom He has formed;
Genesis 2:20
And the man calls names to all the livestock, and to bird of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man a helper has not been found as his counterpart.
Genesis 2:22
And YHWH God builds up the rib which He has taken out of the man into a woman, and brings her to the man;
Genesis 2:23
and the man says, "This at last! Bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!" For this is called Woman, for this has been taken from Man;
Genesis 6:20
From the bird after its kind, and from the livestock after its kind, [and] from every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every [kind] they come to you, to keep alive.
Genesis 9:2
and your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on every bird of the heavens, on all that creeps on the ground, and on all fishes of the sea—into your hand they have been given.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Mary kept all these things,.... Which the shepherds had related to her:

and pondered [them] in her heart; or compared them in her mind, with what had been said to herself by the angel, and also by her husband, as well as what was said by Elisabeth at the time she made her a visit; but she said nothing of them to others, lest she should be thought an enthusiast, or a vain boaster; and therefore left things, till time should make a discovery of them in a proper way, and in the best season.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Mary kept all these things - All that happened, and all that was said respecting her child. She “remembered” what the angel had said to “her;” what had happened to Elizabeth and to the shepherds - all the extraordinary circumstances which had attended. the birth of her son. Here is a delicate and beautiful expression of the feelings of a mother. A “mother” forgets none of those things which occur respecting her children. Everything they do or suffer - everything that is said of them, is treasured up in her mind; and often she thinks of those things, and anxiously seeks what they may indicate respecting the future character and welfare of her child.

Pondered - Weighed. This is the original meaning of the word “weighed.” She kept them; she revolved them; she “weighed” them in her mind, giving to each circumstance its just importance, and anxiously seeking what it might indicate respecting her child.

In her heart - In her mind. She “thought” of these things often and anxiously.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 2:19. And pondered them in her heart. — συμβαλλουσα, Weighing them in her heart. Weighing is an English translation of our word pondering, from the Latin ponderare. Every circumstance relative to her son's birth, Mary treasured up in her memory; and every new circumstance she weighed, or compared with those which had already taken place, in order to acquire the fullest information concerning the nature and mission of her son.


 
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